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Outbreak of ‘brain-swelling’ Nipah reaches five after victim’s son tests positive for the virus dubbed ‘next pandemic’
THE son of a man who died from a brain-swelling Nipah virus that inspired the Hollywood blockbuster Contagion has allegedly ...
Plague Death in Arizona Shows Insidious Disease Never Disappeared
The word "plague" is often used to refer to any major disease epidemic or pandemic, or even to other undesirable events, such ...
An Arizona resident has just died of the plague. What to know about this disease
Most people don’t need to be concerned about the plague based on a recent death in Arizona. But take precautions if you live ...
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Canadian hospitals seeing exponential increase in superbug incidence
Researcher say the increase in carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales infection and colonization is being driven by ...
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An Arizona Resident Died From the Plague. Here’s What to Know About the Rare Disease
The patient had the pneumonic plague, the rarest and deadliest form of the disease. Human cases remain very uncommon in the ...
Patient dies from the ‘Black Death’ plague less than 24 hours after symptoms first emerged
A PERSON has died from plague just 24 hours after they showed up at hospital with symptoms, health officials have said. The ...
What Arizona's Pneumonic Plague death means for public health
An Arizona resident has died from pneumonic plague, a rare but highly dangerous lung infection, Coconino County health ...